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The National, Sleep Well Beast (September 8) As the indie rockers near the 20-year mark, they continue to innovate. Album No. 7 maintains the band’s penchant for dusky, velvet-draped meditations while incorporating digital elements to add color and introspection.

2017 Fall A&E Guide

Neil Young, Hitchhiker (September 8) The rangy guitar god has been raiding his archives for reissues, but Hitchhiker is special. The unreleased album captures a 1976 studio session in which Young recorded 10 acoustic songs, including two that surface here for the very first time.

Wolf Parade, Cry Cry Cry (October 6) On their first album in seven years, the theatrical Canadian indie-rock luminaries show no signs of rust—layering glammy piano, perforated electro swirls and scorching guitars.

Converge, The Dusk in Us (November 3) The post-hardcore heavyweights are back with their first album in five years—and, unsurprisingly, songs like metallic punk jab “Under Duress” and pounding mosh-fomenter “I Can Tell You About Pain” are moments of satisfying catharsis.

Foo Fighters, Concrete and Gold (September 15) The Foos worked with pop kingpin Greg Kurstin on their latest LP, but the band isn’t going soft. Lead single “Run” nods to wicked metal, while “The Sky Is a Neighborhood” is a Zeppelin-esque rocker with gargantuan riffs and string arrangements.

DJ Mathematics, Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues (October 13) This isn’t a Wu-Tang Clan record per se—it’s being billed as a record “crafted by” the group’s DJ/producer—but it was executive-produced by the RZA, and features Method Man, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, Ghostface Killah and even the late ODB.

Taylor Swift, Reputation (November 10) T-Swift’s latest sonic reinvention is still revealing itself, though judging by the electro-heavy “Look What You Made Me Do”—the already ubiquitous, Right Said Fred-interpolating single—expect her sixth album to veer in an even brasher pop direction.